THE proposed new design for Cathedral Lanes has left me almost speechless.

The present Cathedral Lanes is bad enough, blocking the view to the Old Cathedral, but leaving a fine view of Trinity Church. This new design blocks both the old Cathedral and Holy Trinity.

If built, it will leave us with a double monstrosity in place of the single one. When Cathedral Lanes was first proposed to the Coventry public, it was presented as if it were a few small shops set in a leafy environment.

A place where you could walk, eat, admire the medieval buildings about you, and do a little leisurely shopping.

We were sold Cathedral Lanes. Instead, we got a brutal shopping centre, dumped in front of one of the finest vistas in the world.

Please, planners, revert to what we thought we were going to get in the first place.